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9,797,332 | 1. A fuel injection control device for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including an electromagnetic fuel injection valve, the fuel injection control device comprising an electronic control unit configured to: control an actual fuel pressure to correspond to a target fuel pressure, the actual fuel pressure being a pressure of a fuel supplied to the electromagnetic fuel injection valve; calculate a required energization time based on a required injection quantity per injection by the electromagnetic fuel injection valve and the actual fuel pressure, the required energization time being an energization time of the electromagnetic fuel injection valve required for fuel injection equivalent in amount to the required injection quantity; set the energization time of the electromagnetic fuel injection valve for each injection based on the required energization time; execute a switching processing for switching a manner in which the energization time is set when the required energization time is shorter than a full lift minimum energization time, the full lift minimum energization time being an energization time set to a period of time longer than the energization time of the electromagnetic fuel injection valve required for a valve body of the electromagnetic fuel injection valve to reach full opening; set the required energization time as a set value of the energization time of the electromagnetic fuel injection valve through the switching processing when a deviation between the actual fuel pressure and the target fuel pressure is equal to or larger than a predetermined value; and set the full lift minimum energization time as the set value of the energization time of the electromagnetic fuel injection valve when the deviation between the actual fuel pressure and the target fuel pressure is less than the predetermined value. | 35,727 |
8,496,899 | 1. An exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprising: a catalyst substrate; and a catalyst coating disposed on or over the catalyst substrate, and including the following components (a), (b), (c), and (d): (a) Rh, (b) Pt, (c) an alkali metal or alkaline earth element, and (d) an inorganic oxide, wherein the catalyst coating layer has a layered structure including an inside layer, and an outside layer, wherein the inside layer further includes an oxide comprising zirconium, wherein substantially all of component (a) in the catalyst coating is present in the inside layer separate from component (b), wherein substantially all of component (b) in the catalyst coating is present in the outside layer separate from component (a), wherein a noble metal selected from a group consisting of Pd and Ir is included in the outside layer, and wherein the inside layer is devoid of Pd. | 27,115 |
8,525,828 | 1. A computer-implemented method for providing a visualization of fit, flow, and texture of a clothing item to an online consumer, the method comprising executing instructions in a computer system to perform the operations of: storing at a computer a plurality of three-dimensional models of the clothing item created by placing a representative size of the clothing item on a plurality of mannequins having distinct body shapes and scanning the plurality of mannequins wearing the clothing item with a three-dimensional scanner, wherein the three-dimensional scanner captures the fit, flow, and texture of the clothing item as worn by the mannequin, and wherein body dimensions of each of the plurality of mannequins are known; receiving data regarding a body shape and body dimensions of the consumer, wherein the data regarding the body shape and body dimensions of the consumer comprises data describing a three-dimensional avatar representing the consumer; selecting a three-dimensional model of the clothing item from the plurality of three-dimensional models of the clothing item based upon the body shape of the consumer; scaling the selected three-dimensional model of the clothing item based on a comparison between each of the body dimensions of the mannequin and a corresponding body dimension of the consumer; and combining the scaled three-dimensional model of the clothing item with the three-dimensional avatar to produce a three-dimensional visualization of the consumer wearing the clothing item. | 47,782 |
8,530,533 | 1. A rigid polyurethane foam comprising a reinforcing material homogeneously distributed therein, where the mean density of the polyurethane foam without reinforcing material is in the range 50-200 g/l, said rigid polyurethane foam comprising a reinforcing material homogeneously distributed therein being obtained by mixing a) isocyanates, b) compounds having groups which are reactive toward isocyanates, c) blowing agents comprising water, d) a catalyst mixture comprising tertiary amines and, optionally, e) further additives, thereby forming a reaction mixture, applying the reaction mixture to a reinforcing material and curing the reaction mixture, wherein the isocyanates (a) have a viscosity of less than 500 mPas at 25° C., the compounds (b) having groups which are reactive toward isocyanates comprise a polyetherol (b1) having a functionality of 4 or more and a viscosity at 25° C. of 10000 mPas or less and a polyetherol (b2) having a functionality of 3 or less and a viscosity at 25° C. of 500 mPas or less, and the reinforcing material is a fiberglass mat or a carbon fiber mat. | 30,015 |
8,446,731 | 1. A removable device utilized for inserting into a receptacle of a host, the removable device comprising: a first component, comprising a conductive section; and a second component, selectively configured at a first position and a second position with respect to the first component, the second component comprising: | 26,572 |
9,246,750 | 1. A wireless communication apparatus that uses an adaptive modulation radio scheme, the apparatus comprising: two-system transmission paths of an active system transmission path and an auxiliary system transmission path; a line information acquiring unit that acquires line information indicating line states of the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path; a signal processing unit that determines whether or not a fault occurs in the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, based on the line information acquired by the line information acquiring unit; an active system modulation/demodulation unit that outputs, to the line information acquiring unit, active system line information indicating the line state of the active system transmission path; and an auxiliary system modulation/demodulation unit that outputs, to the line information acquiring unit, auxiliary system line information indicating the line state of the auxiliary system transmission path, the signal processing unit carrying out trunk setting using link aggregation control protocol (LACP) technology on both of the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, both paths being wireless communication paths, in order to perform a setting so as to perform wireless communication using the two-system transmission paths of the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, in a case of determining that a fault does not occur in the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, and the signal processing unit performing a setting so as to perform wireless communication using only the transmission path in which a fault does not occur among the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, in a case of determining that a fault occurs in either one of the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, wherein the line information acquiring unit comprises: a first wireless frame converting unit that acquires the active system line information from the active system modulation/demodulation unit, and outputs an active system main signal to the active system modulation/demodulation unit; and a second wireless frame converting unit that acquires the auxiliary system line information from the auxiliary system modulation/demodulation unit, and outputs an auxiliary system main signal to the auxiliary system modulation/demodulation unit, and wherein: the signal processing unit performs a setting so as to transmit the active system main signal to the active system modulation/demodulation unit via the first wireless frame converting unit and transmit the auxiliary system main signal to the auxiliary system modulation/demodulation unit via the second wireless frame converting unit, in a case of determining that a fault does not occur in the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path; the signal processing unit performs a setting so as to transmit the auxiliary system main signal to the auxiliary system modulation/demodulation unit via the second wireless frame converting unit and not transmit the active system main signal to the active system modulation/demodulation unit via the first wireless frame converting unit, in a case of determining that a fault occurs in the active system transmission path; and the signal processing unit performs a setting so as to transmit the active system main signal to the active system modulation/demodulation unit via the first wireless frame converting unit and not transmit the auxiliary system main signal to the auxiliary system modulation/demodulation unit via the second wireless frame converting unit, in a case of determining that a fault occurs in the auxiliary system transmission path. | 15,616 |
9,812,926 | 1. A system for generating electrical power using air moving through a duct of a forced air heating or air conditioning system within a building, comprising: a wind turbine sized to be mounted within a duct and comprising one or more blades coupled to a generator for converting kinetic energy from air moving through the duct into electrical power; and a device coupled to the generator comprising one or more electrical components or sensors and a battery for providing electrical power to the electrical components or sensors of the device and coupled to the generator for charging the battery; and a controller coupled to the battery to monitor a power level of the battery, the controller configured to communicate with an HVAC system to activate the HVAC system to deliver air into the duct to charge the battery. | 31,139 |
8,973,691 | 1. An off-road vehicle comprising: a frame; a cockpit area defined in the frame; a roll cage connected to the frame, the roll cage covering at least in part the cockpit area; a driver seat and a passenger seat disposed side-by-side in the cockpit area; an electric motor supported by the frame, the electric motor being disposed laterally between the driver and passenger seats; at least one first battery electrically connected to the electric motor, the at least one first battery being supported by the frame and being disposed on a right side of the electric motor; at least one second battery electrically connected to the electric motor, the at least one second battery being supported by the frame and being disposed on a left side of the electric motor; two front wheels and two rear wheels supported by the frame, at least two of the wheels being operatively connected to the electric motor for propelling the vehicle; and a steering device being operatively connected to at least two of the wheels for steering the vehicle. | 18,162 |
9,150,396 | 1. An electric-vehicle control device which is used in an electric vehicle, the electric vehicle including a vehicle body and at least one driving motor, the vehicle body having at least one driving tire and at least one axle shaft, the at least one driving motor imparting torque to the at least one driving tire, the electric-vehicle control device issuing a motor control command to the at least one driving motor, the electric-vehicle control device comprising: a control unit configured to generate a first wave pattern, the first wave pattern being a reverse wave pattern of a second wave pattern, a first phase of the first wave pattern being shifted at 90 degrees from a second phase of the second wave pattern, the second wave pattern being of vibration parameters indicating vertical vibration of the electric vehicle at the center of the at least one axle shaft; an extra torque computing unit configured to determine extra torque of the at least one driving motor; and a limiter configured to generate a third wave pattern by restricting an amplitude of the first wave pattern to a predetermined range, the restriction being performed based on the extra torque determined by the extra torque computing unit, wherein the control unit is configured to perform a feedback control of the at least one driving motor by adding the third wave pattern generated by the limiter to the motor control command, and wherein at least one of the first phase and the second phase is adjusted based on a controlled frequency band corresponding to static loads acting on the electric vehicle. | 14,316 |
8,951,999 | 1. A compound selected from the following compounds: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 19,330 |
9,840,938 | 1. A gas turbine engine comprising a housing for a bearing cavity having a bearing rotatably supporting a shaft having a rotational axis, the housing having a wall extending generally radially relative to the rotational axis with an inner surface facing an interior of the bearing cavity and an outer surface in use facing an engine heat source, the housing having an annular flange including: a first flange wall extending generally radially and being axially spaced apart from the radial housing wall relative to the rotational axis to define a first space between the radial housing wall and the first flange wall; a second flange wall extending generally radially and being axially spaced apart from first flange wall relative to the rotational axis to define a second space between the first flange wall and the second flange wall; and a thermally conductive junction between the second flange wall and the first flange wall, the junction being disposed at a radially inner end of the second space to define a conductive heat transfer path between the second flange wall and the first flange wall. | 9,455 |
8,460,633 | 1. A process for the production of hydrogen with at least 95% purity from a hydrocarbon feedstock comprising alcohols with a carbon atom number of more than 2, or oxygenated compounds of the glycerol family or of any mixture of the two, said process comprising the following stages: a) A catalytic steam reforming stage of the feedstock at a given feedstock/steam ratio at a temperature of between 500° C. and 750° C., and at a pressure level of between 0.6 and 2 MPa, relative, b) At least one carbon monoxide conversion reaction of the resulted effluent obtained from stage a), c) A final membrane purification stage of the effluent from stage b) so as to produce a hydrogen flow, called permeate, with at least 95% purity, and a flow, called retentate, that contains methane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen, d) A combustion stage of the retentate obtained from the membrane purification unit and that is used as the main fuel in a burner whose hot effluents supply calories necessary to the steam reforming stage, adjusting to the composition of the main fuel the steam/feedstock ratio of the mixture that enters the steam reforming stage so as to adjust to a lower calorific value (PCI) of said main fuel so as to satisfy the need for calories corresponding to the endothermicity of the steam reforming stage, and wherein the ratio by mots of the hydrocarbon feedstock to the steam at the inlet of the steam reforming stage is 12, and the catalyst used in the steam reforming stage is a supported catalyst that contains at least one metal of group VIII, or a catalyst comprising: a) A solid solution-type substrate that contains a first aluminate element with a mixed or simple spinel structure (x=1; or x=0), of formula M b) an active phase that is deposited on said substrate, which contains one or more metals of group VIII. | 9,231 |
9,790,114 | 1. A device for remineralization and pH correction of water produced by a fuel cell in a confined space, the device comprising: a saturation reagent; a first tank; a first treatment tank containing the saturation reagent; a second tank; the tanks arranged top to bottom in the order of the first tank, the first treatment tank, and the second tank; means for providing a flow of treated water from the first treatment tank; a first conduit leading from the bottom portion of the first tank into a bottom portion of the first treatment tank; a second conduit leading from the top portion of the first tank to a top portion of the second tank; a third conduit leading from the top portion of the first treatment tank, through which treated water is discharged, rejoining the second conduit whereby mixing occurs at the intersection of second conduit and third conduit; and a control valve in conduit upstream of conduit so as to obtain water with the desired mineralization or pH. | 24,295 |
9,275,004 | 1. A method for managing firewall requirements related to a virtualized application by a cloud management entity having a processing engine, comprising: | 13,888 |
8,432,168 | 1. An impedance measuring system which measures the impedance of a fuel cell, including: an electronic device connected to the fuel cell and controlled by a frequency; a detection device that detects the frequency of a control signal to control the electronic device; a decision device that determines the measurement frequency of the impedance based on the detected frequency; and a measurement device that measures the impedance at the determined measurement frequency, wherein the decision means determines, as the measurement frequency of the impedance, a frequency which does not resonate with the detected frequency. | 1,715 |
9,540,664 | 1. A method for improving ethanol yield comprising: grinding a feedstock to generate a grind; combining the grind with water and enzymes to produce a slurry, wherein starch in the grind is converted to sugars in the slurry; adjusting the pH of the slurry to facilitate priming; adding an ethanologen to the slurry; priming the slurry by adding a priming agent 30 minutes to 120 minutes after adding the ethanologen to the slurry, wherein in the priming agent is added in addition to any supplemental priming agent produced by the ethanologen; and fermenting the slurry to produce ethanol. | 27,357 |
8,351,382 | 1. A method comprising: receiving at a receiver a persistent or a semi-persistent uplink resource allocation that also comprises an indication to send channel quality reports; determining by a processor a format for a channel quality report; and in at least first transmissions of user data for instances of the persistently or semi-persistently allocated uplink resource, sending from a transmitter user data and a channel quality report according to the determined format. | 6,764 |
8,495,903 | 1. A method for calibrating a tool, the method comprising: deflecting a moveable blade connected to the tool towards an inward position with respect to the tool; detecting a force applied to the moveable blade by a biasing mechanism in the tool using a sensor when the moveable blade is in the inward position with respect to the tool; and adjusting the biasing mechanism in the tool if the force is not a desired force, wherein the desired force is a selected force for reducing an inconsistency generated in response to forming a hole. | 23,104 |
9,135,118 | 1. A computer implemented method, the method comprising: monitoring, by a catalog engine, the creation or deletion of point-in-time backups from each of a plurality of N different file systems in which independent processes are utilized to acquire data from each of the N different file systems; determining, for each of the N different file systems, differences between a set of backups known to the catalog engine and to backups known by each of N different file systems; building a central catalog of directory metadata based on the determined differences between the set of backups known to the catalog engine and the backups known by each of the N different file systems, the central catalog of directory metadata including a set of independent backup catalogs representing the N different file systems in which each individual backup catalog represents point-in-time backups of a respective one of the N different file systems; wherein the central catalog is organized in metadata records and is tangibly embodied in the at least one tangible computer readable medium organized in records arranged as baseline files and deltas, and the metadata records for the N different file systems are stored as N independent backup catalog structures including pointers to files and directories of the plurality of different file systems; wherein each record for an individual backup file catalog has a file structure that includes: | 14,699 |
9,189,693 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a memory configured to store a computer program; and a processor configured to execute the computer program stored in the memory to function as: an encoding unit configured to encode an input pattern to a code including a plurality of bits based on differences between feature amounts on the input pattern; a calculation unit configured to calculate reliabilities for respective bits of the code based on differences between the feature amounts against the input pattern; a generation unit configured to generate similar codes each similar to the code based on the reliabilities; and a recognition unit configured to recognize the input pattern based on the code encoded by said encoding unit and the similar codes generated by said generation unit. | 1,347 |
9,331,347 | 1. A method for controlling a fuel cell system including a fuel cell stack having stacked together a plurality of fuel cells that generate power by being supplied reactant gas, and a reactant gas supply means for supplying reactant gas to the fuel cell stack, the method comprising: an idling stop step, initiated in a case of a predetermined condition being established during idling power generation, for supplying oxidant gas of a lower flow rate than during the idling power generation to the fuel cell stack by way of the reactant gas supply means, while producing a lower current than during the idling power generation from the fuel cell stack, wherein the oxidant gas is supplied in a steady state during idling power generation, and the oxidant gas is supplied at a lower steady state during idling stop than during idling power generation. | 49,074 |
8,543,222 | 1. An implantable electrical lead having a proximal end and a distal end, said lead comprising: (A) an electrode terminal having a body and at least one electrode at said distal end; (B) a connector terminal having a body and at least one contact at said proximal end; (C) a tubular sheath extending proximally from said body of said electrode terminal, said sheath having a wall, a proximally facing opening, and an outer end; and (D) a conductor cable extending from said outer end of said sheath to said connector terminal; said cable having an insulating body and at least one conductor, said insulating body merging tangentially into said sheath wall; wherein said conductor extends within said sheath wall to said electrode terminal; and wherein said conductor electrically connects said electrode to a respective contact; whereby said lead can be introduced into an anatomical target in a human body using a stylet inserted into said sheath opening wherein said stylet bypasses said connector terminal and said cable. | 8,241 |
8,393,533 | 1. An automatic transaction processing apparatus comprising: an upper operation unit including a customer-operated display screen that is operated by a customer and that serves as a maintenance display screen; and a cylinder lock; wherein the customer-operated display screen is configured to be linearly movable so that a maintenance space, through which an interior of the apparatus can be accessed, is opened by moving the customer-operated display screen; and wherein the upper operation unit including the customer-operated display screen moves based on a rotation of the cylinder lock. | 12,704 |
8,748,911 | 1. A light emitting system emitting an output light having a first color, the system comprising: a first electroluminescent device emitting light at a first wavelength in response to a first signal, the first wavelength being substantially independent of the first signal and an intensity of the emitted first wavelength light being substantially proportional to the first signal; and a first luminescent element comprising a second electroluminescent device and a first light converting layer, wherein: wherein the light emitting system combines light at the first wavelength with light at the third wavelength to form the output light having the first color, and wherein when one of the first and second signals changes from about 50% of a maximum rating of the signal to about 100% of the maximum rating, but a ratio of the first signal to the second signal remains substantially unchanged, the first color of the output light remains substantially unchanged. | 33,647 |
9,374,656 | 1. A method for pairing a mobile endpoint device to an output device using a card swipe authentication, comprising: registering the mobile endpoint device to be associated with an access card used to access the output device, wherein the output device comprises a printer; detecting a card swipe of the access card at the output device; identifying the mobile endpoint device that is authenticated to pair with the output device based upon the registering; establishing a secure session between the mobile endpoint device and the output device using a unique session identifier and configuration information without any user interaction after the card swipe; sending a notification to the mobile endpoint device, wherein the notification comprises the unique session identifier that was used to establish the secure session and pair the output device to the mobile endpoint device; receiving a single print command from the mobile endpoint device via the secure session after the secure session is established and after the notification is sent, wherein the single print command includes the unique session identifier and a plurality of pre-loaded parameters configured by a user to be executed by the output device; and forwarding the single print command to the output device to execute the single print command with the plurality of pre-loaded parameters when the unique session identifier is validated by the secure session, wherein the single print command is forwarded via a local authentication server when the secure session is established over a Wi-Fi network or the single print command is forwarded via a relay server when the secure session is established over a cellular communication network. | 27,069 |
9,309,903 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a housing including a surface; a bimorph actuator disposed in the housing, the bimorph actuator including a first bimorph beam and a second bimorph beam spaced apart from the first bimorph beam, the first bimorph beam having a first portion fixed relative to the surface; and a blade rotatably coupled to the bimorph actuator, the bimorph actuator to rotate the blade to extend a portion of the blade through the surface to generate a vortex in a fluid flowing past the surface, wherein the blade is disposed in a space between the first bimorph beam and the second bimorph beam when the blade is in a retracted position. | 46,445 |
9,542,801 | 1. A wagering game system comprising: game-logic circuitry configured to randomly select an outcome for a wagering game from a plurality of possible outcomes including a first outcome and a second, different outcome; a wearable device comprising one or more haptic output devices, one or more processors, one or more memory devices, and a wireless communication device; and a system communication device configured to transmit the randomly selected outcome for the wagering game to the wireless communication device of the wearable device; wherein, in response to the selected outcome being the first outcome, the one or more processors of the wearable device cause the one or more haptic output devices to output a predetermined first pattern of pulses to a wearer of the wearable device, the first pattern corresponding to the first outcome and, in response to the selected outcome being the second, different outcome, the one or more processors of the wearable device cause the one or more haptic outcome devices to output a second, different pattern of pulses corresponding to the second, different outcome, the first and second patterns of pulses communicating the respective first and second outcomes to the wearer without a representation of game symbols. | 5,540 |
8,566,598 | 1. A method comprising: receiving by a computer processor an authentication code associated with an object and a party-specific code associated with a party, the party-specific code is unknown to the processor prior to its receipt by the processor; subsequently executing an instruction set by the processor to classify authenticity of the object as a function of the authentication code and a stored code to which no party-specific code is associated, the stored code received from a manufacturer of the object; subsequently causing the party-specific code to become associated with the stored code upon matching of the authentication code to a stored code such that the stored code is judged to no longer match the authentication code; subsequently signaling an outcome based on the classifying; prompting the party for a selection as to whether the party would like to transfer the object to another party if the outcome indicates that the object is authentic and it is determined that the object is intended and allowed by the manufacturer to be transferred between parties; and causing a new party-specific code received from the another party to become associated with the stored code after a response to the prompt indicates the authentic object is being transferred to the another party. | 36,111 |
9,469,104 | 1. A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a liquid ejecting head that has a piezoelectric body that deforms due to a drive signal being applied thereto, and is capable of ejecting liquid droplets from nozzles by bringing about a pressure fluctuation in a liquid inside a pressure chamber by using the deformation of the piezoelectric body; and a drive signal generator that generates the drive signal, wherein the drive signal includes a first drive pulse that causes liquid droplets to be ejected from the nozzles and a second drive pulse that causes liquid droplets of a different size from those of the first drive pulse to be ejected from the nozzles, wherein the first drive pulse and the second drive pulse have at least an expansion element that causes the pressure chamber to expand from a standard capacity by changing from a standard potential, which is a standard for changes in potential, to an expansion potential, a contraction element that causes the pressure chamber to contract by exceeding the standard potential from a potential that is on an expansion potential side of the standard potential, thereby ejecting the liquid, and a vibration control element that controls pressure vibrations in the pressure chamber that are brought about after the ejection of the liquid by changing from a contraction potential to the standard potential, wherein an initiation potential of the contraction element of the first drive pulse and an initiation potential of the contraction element of the second drive pulse are made to be uniform at the same potential, wherein an initiation potential for the expansion element of the first drive pulse and an initiation potential of the expansion element of the second drive pulse are made to be uniform at the standard potential, wherein the expansion element of the first drive pulse changes from the standard potential to the initiation potential of the contraction element of the first drive pulse directly without a hold element and the expansion element of the second drive pulse changes from the standard potential to the initiation potential of the contraction element of the second drive pulse directly without a hold element, and wherein in the first drive pulse and the second drive pulse, a difference in potential between the standard potential and the contraction potential is set to 40% or more and 50% or less with respect to a difference in potential between the initiation potential of the contraction element and the contraction potential. | 23,662 |
9,604,697 | 1. A power-assisting system providing at least an assisting power to a personal mobility vehicle that itself is human-powered, the power-assisting system comprising: at least one actuation unit comprising a motor and a power amplifier geared with the motor; a sensing unit comprising a rotating speed sensor, a multi-axis accelerometer and a multi-axis gyroscope and configured for sensing acceleration of the personal mobility vehicle, an angular velocity of the personal mobility vehicle and a rotating speed of the motor; and a signal processing device unit connected to the actuation unit and the sensing unit to process signals of the sensing unit, so as for the actuation unit to generate damping compensation, inertia compensation, and gravity compensation in accordance with the processed signals. | 41,722 |
8,834,821 | 1. A method, comprising: providing a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst disposed in an exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine, and a reagent injector operationally coupled to the exhaust gas stream at a position upstream of the SCR catalyst; providing a NO operating an extremum seeking algorithm to determine a first reagent injection amount corresponding to a minimum apparent NO providing a reagent injection command in response to the first reagent injection amount; and injecting an amount of the reagent in response to the reagent injection command. | 27,251 |
9,647,559 | 1. A switching power supply circuit comprising: a control switch; a synchronous switch; a common node connecting the control switch and the synchronous switch in series between a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, the common node coupled to an inductor that supplies current to a load; and a voltage ramping circuit coupled to the control switch, the voltage ramping circuit controlling ramping of a magnitude of a switch control voltage applied to control the control switch based on a magnitude of a feedback voltage received on a circuit path from the common node; wherein the voltage ramping circuit includes multiple switch charge paths independently activated to ramp the magnitude of the switch control voltage using the feedback voltage; and wherein the multiple switch charge paths includes a first switch charge path and a second switch charge path between the feedback voltage and a driver switch of the voltage ramping circuit, the driver switch operable to drive the switch control voltage to the control switch, the voltage ramping circuit controlling activation of the first switch charge path and activation of the second switch charge path during non-overlapping time segments to increase the magnitude of the switch control voltage to transition the control switch from an OFF state to an ON state. | 41,742 |
9,240,617 | 1. An electrode assembly for a secondary battery, the electrode assembly comprising: a positive electrode plate comprising a positive electrode collector and a positive electrode coating coated on a portion of the positive electrode collector, the positive electrode collector comprising at least one uncoated portion, a negative electrode plate comprising a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode coating coated on a portion of the negative electrode collector, the negative electrode collector comprising at least one uncoated portion having a first dimension between an end of the negative electrode collector and an end of the negative electrode coating and a second dimension having first and second ends extending generally perpendicular to the first dimension, a separator for insulating the positive and negative electrode plates from each other, a positive electrode tab attached to a first surface of the positive electrode collector, a negative electrode tab attached to a first surface of the negative electrode collector, and a negative electrode adiabatic plate attached to the negative electrode collector, wherein the negative electrode adiabatic plate is attached only to a second surface of the negative electrode collector opposite the negative electrode tab, and wherein an area of attachment of the negative electrode adiabatic plate to the negative electrode collector is greater than an area of attachment of the negative electrode tab to the negative electrode collector, and the area of attachment of the negative electrode adiabatic plate to the negative electrode collector is smaller than an area of the uncoated portion of the negative electrode collector, wherein the negative electrode adiabatic plate has a width smaller than a width of the uncoated portion of the negative electrode collector, the negative electrode adiabatic plate having a first dimension along the first dimension of the negative electrode collector and a second dimension having first and second ends extending along the first and second ends of the second dimension of the negative electrode collector, and one of the first or second ends of the second dimension of the negative electrode adiabatic plate is at one of the first or second ends of the second dimension of the uncoated portion of the negative electrode collector, and wherein the negative electrode adiabatic plate is configured to substantially prevent melting and/or contraction of the separator. | 47,419 |
9,644,490 | 1. An aircraft engine for use in a fighter jet, said aircraft engine comprising: a high pressure turbine having a blade; an engine casing disposed about said blade; a shield disposed around said casing adjacent to said blade and creating an area between said shield and said casing; a gate disposed along said shield, said gate rotatable about said engine casing between an opened position and a closed position for selectively controlling entry of cooling air into said area. | 29,361 |
9,813,013 | 1. A height-adjustable base member, comprising: an arm, comprising: a lever, comprising: a fastener, inserted through the bores of the arm and the lever, coupling the arm to the lever. | 8,823 |
9,302,928 | 1. An amorphous alloy containing: 68 atomic % or more and 86 atomic % or less of Re; 8 atomic % or more and 12 atomic % or less of Hf; and 0.1 atomic % or more and 5 atomic % or less of O. | 35,923 |
8,871,371 | 1. A battery module comprising: a plurality of rechargeable batteries; a cooling wall located along and between the rechargeable batteries to cool the rechargeable batteries using a coolant, the cooling wall comprising a plurality of first wall bodies that extend generally in a first direction and a plurality of second wall bodies that extend generally in a second direction intersecting the first direction, each of the first wall bodies and the second wall bodies having a cavity therein through which the coolant is able to move, wherein the cavity of each of the first wall bodies is in communication with the cavity of at least one of the second wall bodies to form a single continuous flow path such that the coolant is able to move within the cooling wall using the flow path; and a heating base comprising a heating barrier that defines grooves in the heating base, wherein each one of the grooves accommodates one of the rechargeable batteries, and a heat line within the heating barrier and spaced from each of the rechargeable batteries, wherein: inner ones of the first wall bodies are disposed between a pair of outer first wall bodies, and both ends of the inner first wall bodies are alternately connected to adjacent first wall bodies by the second wall bodies. | 4,435 |
9,067,826 | 1. A binder containing Portland cement in an amount ranging from 20 to 95% by weight and a ternesite cement in an amount ranging from 5 to 80% by weight, the contents adding up to 100%, wherein the ternesite cement contains 20 to 100% by weight of a clinker phase comprising C wherein the contents of the clinker phases add up to 100%. | 28,322 |
8,523,821 | 1. A valve assembly for a catheter, comprising: a housing defining first and second lumens therethrough; a pressure activated valve disposed between the first and second lumens, the valve adapted to permit fluid to flow from the first lumen to the second lumen when acted upon by a fluid pressure in excess of a predetermined threshold; an outlet fluidly coupled to the second lumen; and an inlet moveable between a first position and a second position, wherein the inlet engages the first lumen when it is in the first position, and the inlet engages the second lumen when it is in the second position. | 35,749 |
9,355,610 | 1. A power supply comprising: an inputter comprising an input capacitor, the inputter being configured to receive an input DC voltage; a converter comprising an inductor and an output capacitor, the converter being configured to convert the input DC voltage and output the converted input DC voltage; and a controller configured to control the converter to convert the input DC voltage corresponding to a reference voltage, the controller comprising: | 25,070 |
9,810,451 | 1. An oil recovery system, comprising: a solar steam generator, comprising: a fuel-fired steam generator coupled in parallel with the solar steam generator; a steam distribution system operatively coupled to both the solar steam generator and the fuel-fired steam generator to receive steam from both the solar steam generator and the fuel-fired steam generator, the steam distribution system being coupled to at least one oilfield steam injection well; and an automatic control system coupled to at least one of the solar steam generator or the fuel-fired steam generator and programmed with instructions that, when executed, direct an incoming volume of water to be heated by only the solar steam generator or only the fuel-fired steam generator. | 39,177 |
9,444,286 | 1. An uninterruptible power supply system, comprising: a plurality of uninterruptible power supply devices which are connected in parallel with respect to a load, and switch between power supplies supplying power to said load depending on states of said power supplies; a control unit controlling an operation of switching between said power supplies by said uninterruptible power supply devices; and a storage battery connected to the plurality of said uninterruptible power supply devices in common, said uninterruptible power supply device having said control unit deactivating said conversion unit which does not contribute to supplying a power amount required for said load, of a plurality of said conversion units. | 18,241 |
8,848,732 | 1. A method for controlling a connection between a plurality of nodes through an interface, comprising: transmitting control information from a first node to a second node, the control information including identification information of the second node and a connection command, wherein the second node is operated to be connected with the interface based on the connection command wherein the second node maintains a connection state until a disconnection command is detected, and wherein during the connection state, a physical connection between the first node and the second node is maintained to receive the disconnection command through the interface; and receiving, according to the control information, a response information including identification information of the first node. | 6,512 |
8,421,669 | 1. A synthetic aperture processing system comprising; transmission means for generating a frequency-modulated wave having a time-varying frequency and radiating the frequency-modulated wave to an irradiation region from a plurality of measuring sites; reception means for receiving a plurality of reflected waves caused by the plurality of frequency-modulated waves radiated from the transmission means and reflected off objects in the irradiation region; range compression means for range-compressing each of the reflected waves received by the reception means and generating reception data consisting of a plurality of sinc functions; correlation value calculation means for, based on a plurality of model data segments consisting of a plurality of sinc functions obtained by range compression of ideal reception waves caused by the reflection of the frequency-modulated waves at a plurality of predetermined sites in the irradiation region and the reception data generated by the range compression means, calculating correlation values representing a degree of correlation between each of the model data segments and the reception data; and output means for outputting the correlation values calculated by the correlation value calculation means. | 11,790 |
8,758,917 | 1. A secondary battery comprising: a wound electrode body comprising a strip-shaped positive electrode sheet, a strip-shaped negative electrode sheet, and a strip-shaped separator, the positive and negative electrode sheets stacked and wound with the separator interposed therebetween; and a battery case enclosing the wound electrode body, the positive electrode sheet comprising: the negative electrode sheet comprising: wherein the positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet are opposed to each other so that the positive electrode mixture layer is covered by the negative electrode mixture layer, and the positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet are stacked on each other so that the uncoated portion of the positive electrode sheet and the uncoated portion of the negative electrode sheet protrude in opposite lateral directions from the separator; wherein the wound electrode body is wound around a winding axis set in a lateral direction of the stacked positive electrode sheet; wherein the battery case has sidewalls facing toward respective side ends of the wound electrode body, the side ends being at opposite lateral sides of the positive electrode sheet, and of the sidewalls of the battery case, one of the sidewalls facing toward the uncoated portion of the positive electrode sheet is thicker than the other one of the sidewalls; and wherein the positive electrode current collector has a thermal conductivity less than that of the negative electrode current collector. | 25,415 |
9,436,261 | 1. A battery management system, comprising: a plurality of slave controllers, each slave controller of the plurality of slave controllers being coupled to a respective battery module, each of the slave controllers having a slave controller identifier, the respective slave controller identifiers being allocated by a slave controller identifier allocation operation performed by the plurality of slave controllers; and a master controller, the master controller being coupled to each of the slave controllers, the master controller receiving the slave controller identifiers from the slave controllers, wherein: the plurality of slave controllers includes a serial interconnection such that each slave controller of the plurality of slave controllers is wired together in sequence by the serial interconnection, each slave controller of the plurality of slave controllers sequentially receives a control signal on the serial interconnection and outputs the control signal after a delay to a subsequent slave controller, and each respective slave controller determines a relative position along the serial interconnection according to a delay of the control signal received by the respective slave controller. | 5,796 |
8,355,955 | 1. A computer-implemented method of generating a personalized display page, the method comprising: assigning at least one of a default position or a default size to a user-selectable feature to be displayed on a plurality of display pages, wherein the user-selectable feature is configured to share an opinion of a user regarding an item advertised on a display page from the plurality of display pages with a plurality of social networking contacts of the user when the user-selectable feature is selected by the user; confirming that the user of a catalog system has authorized access by the catalog system to a social networking system; retrieving, from the social networking system, social networking information that identifies the plurality of social networking contacts of the user; determining, based at least in part on the retrieved social networking information, a social networking usage by the user by at least calculating a number of times the user has created a comment or a post on the social networking system; based at least in part on the determination, changing at least one of the default position to a new position or the default size to a new size; outputting the display page for the item for presentation to the user, wherein the display page includes the user-selectable feature according to the at least one of the new position or the new size; outputting the display page for the item for presentation to a second user, the second user different from the first user, wherein the display page includes the user-selectable feature according to the at least one of the default position or the default size; and wherein the method is performed in its entirety by a computer system comprising one or more machines. | 13,427 |
8,507,744 | 1. A process for the production of para-xylene comprising: reacting toluene with methanol under alkylation conditions in the presence of a catalyst suitable for the production of a product comprising para-xylene and oxygenates to produce a first product comprising para-xylene and oxygenates, and then, without any intervening treatment, subjecting said product to purification by crystallization to produce a paraxylene fraction said paraxylene fraction characterized by a BI of 30 or less and having a lower amount of oxygenate impurities than said first product. | 18,688 |
9,707,514 | 1. A method for reducing nitric oxide, comprising: a step of reducing nitric oxide to nitrogen in the presence of a negatively charged copper cluster. | 44,466 |
9,303,516 | 1. A movable blade for a turbomachine, the blade comprising at its distal end a top portion comprising: a platform defining an outside surface of a passage for gas passing through the turbomachine, and opposite first and second side edges; and upstream and downstream sealing wipers extending radially outwards from the platform; wherein each of the first and second side edges includes a substantially Z-shaped profile between the upstream and downstream wipers, which profile includes a first segment closer to the upstream wiper, an intermediate second segment, and a third segment closer to the downstream wiper, the first and third segments being substantially parallel to each other, and the second segment extending obliquely between the first and third segments; wherein the top portion includes, on a side of the first side edge, a first outwardly projecting rim that extends along the second segment of the first side edge, the first rim not being connected to either of the upstream and downstream wipers; and the top portion includes, on a side of the second side edge, a second outwardly projecting rim, the second rim having a downstream portion connected to the downstream wiper and extending along the second and third segments of the second side edge, and an upstream portion extending the downstream portion as far as the upstream wiper, being set back relative to the first segment of the second side edge. | 41,240 |
8,797,974 | 1. A method of controlling a monitoring operation of a physical downlink channel in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: triggering a signaling such that at least one radio resource is allocated for an uplink data transmission, wherein the signaling is a Scheduling Request (SR) signaling; determining whether the triggered SR signaling is being transmitted to a network; and performing the monitoring operation of the physical downlink channel based on the determining whether the triggered SR signaling is being transmitted to the network, wherein the monitoring operation of the physical downlink channel is performed for a certain time period, wherein the certain time period is based on a time from when the triggered SR signaling is sent to the network, wherein the monitoring operation is not performed until a specific condition is satisfied after the SR signaling is triggered, and wherein the specific condition relates to a specific time at which the triggered SR signaling is sent to the network. | 1,806 |
9,074,772 | 1. A combustor comprising: a chamber into which fuel and air is supplied; an air hole plate located upstream of the chamber and having a plurality of air holes; and a plurality of fuel nozzles to supply fuel to the air holes, wherein: a center of a chamber-side face of the air hole plate extends further into the chamber than an exit of one of the plurality of the air holes located at an outermost peripheral region of the air plate; the combustor further comprising: an inner peripheral flat face on the chamber-side face of the air hole plate; an outer peripheral flat face on the chamber-side face of the air hole plate located upstream of the inner peripheral flat face; and a connecting portion which connects the inner peripheral flat face and the outer peripheral flat face, wherein a wall face of the connecting portion is slanted in order to make a radial distance from a center axis of the air hole plate to the wall face in a downstream side closer than that in an upstream side; and exits of the plurality of air holes located at an innermost peripheral region are disposed further downstream of the chamber than exits of the plurality of air holes located at the outermost peripheral region. | 37,942 |
8,697,553 | 1. A method of fabricating a solar cell comprising: providing a substrate having non-textured and textured regions, wherein the entire substrate is either p-type or n-type; exposing a surface of the substrate having non-textured and textured regions to a uniform plasma ion beam of dopant ions, thereby using a single ion implant step to implant dopants into the textured regions at a first density and into the non-textured regions at a second density larger than the first density to form gridlines on the non-textured regions; and coupling metallic contact fingers to the gridlines; and wherein exposing the surface comprises engulfing the entire surface of the substrate with the plasma ion beam of dopant ions; and wherein, the dopant ions are of the opposite dopant type to that of the substrate. | 34,267 |
9,836,527 | 1. A method, comprising: semantically processing, by an online semantic processor, a long tail voice-based query issued at a first resource-constrained device of a coordinated ecosystem of resource-constrained devices controlled by a user to identify one or more candidate responsive actions that are performable by one or more of the resource-constrained devices, wherein the long tail voice-based query is unique or occurs relatively infrequently in a search volume of queries; providing, as output at one or more of the resource-constrained devices, one or more prompts suggesting performance of the respective one or more candidate actions; analyzing one or more responses by the user to the one or more prompts to select, from the one or more candidate responsive actions, a qualifying responsive action; and updating an offline grammar model stored in each of the coordinated ecosystem of resource-constrained devices to include a mapping between the issued long tail voice-based query and the qualifying responsive action, wherein the offline grammar model maps voice-based queries to actions that are performable by each resource-constrained device of the coordinated ecosystem of resource-constrained devices while offline. | 25,906 |
8,546,506 | 1. A system for producing a copolymer of isoprene comprising: (a) an isoprene starting composition derived from renewable resources, wherein the isoprene starting composition is comprised of greater than about 2 mg of isoprene and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of ethanol, acetone, methanol, acetaldehyde, methacrolein, methyl vinyl ketone 2-methyl-2-vinyloxirane, cis- and trans-3-methyl-1, 3-pentadiene, a C5 prenyl alcohol, 2-heptanone, 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one, 2,4,5-trimethylpyridine, 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, citronellal, methanethiol, methyl acetate, 1-propanol, diacetyl, 2-butanone, 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol, ethyl acetate, 2-methyl-1-propadol, 3-methyl-1-butanal, 3-methyl-2-butanone, 1-butanol, 2-pentanone, 3-methyl-1-butanol, ethyl isobutyrate, 3-methyl-2-butenal, butyl acetate, 3-methylbutyl acetate, 3-methyl-3-buten-1-yl acetate, 3-methyl-2-buten-1-yl acetate, (E)-3,7-dimethyl-1,3,6-octatriene, and (Z)-3,7-dimethyl-1,3,6-octatriene; and (b) a polymer produced from at least a portion of the isoprene starting material; wherein at least a portion of the isoprene starting composition undergoes polymerizettion with another non-isoprene molecule to produce a copolymer. | 37,370 |
9,286,520 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computing device of a vehicle, an image of an environment of the vehicle, wherein the image includes a plurality of pixels having respective red color values, green color values, and blue color values; identifying given pixels in the plurality of pixels having one or more of: (i) a red color value greater than a green color value, and (ii) the red color value greater than a blue color value; making a comparison between one or more characteristics of a shape of an object represented by the given pixels in the image and corresponding one or more characteristics of a predetermined shape of a road flare; determining one or more motion characteristics of the object represented by the given pixels; determining, using the computing device, a likelihood that the object represents the road flare based at least on (i) the comparison, and (ii) the one or more motion characteristics of the object, such that the likelihood is increased when the one or more motion characteristics indicate that the object remains stationary; modifying, using the computing device, a control strategy associated with a driving behavior of the vehicle, based on the likelihood; and providing, using the computing device, instructions to control the vehicle based on the modified control strategy. | 32,867 |
9,206,456 | 1. A single-step process for producing proteoliposomes containing membrane proteins, the process consisting essentially of expressing membrane proteins in an in vitro cell-free expression system that includes lipid vesicles containing a lipid bilayer, wherein the lipid vesicles are present in the in vitro cell-free expression system at a concentration of 0.5 mg/ml to 10 mg/ml, thereby producing proteoliposomes containing a lipid bilayer and active membrane proteins integrated into the lipid bilayer in their native, functional conformation. | 49,128 |
9,006,720 | 1. A dispersion comprising at least about 0.05 weight percent elemental silicon/germanium nanoparticles having an average primary particle diameter of no more than about 250 nanometers, wherein the nanoparticles comprise no more than about 200 parts per billion of iron by weight. | 481 |
9,062,632 | 1. An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, having a first cylinder bank ( 12 ) and a second cylinder bank ( 13 ), comprising an exhaust tract ( 20 ) including a first exhaust manifold ( 40 ) and a second exhaust manifold ( 42 ), the first exhaust manifold ( 40 ) with a first exhaust gas duct ( 44 ) being associated with the first cylinder bank ( 12 ), and the second exhaust manifold ( 42 ) with a second exhaust gas duct ( 46 ) being associated with the second cylinder bank ( 13 ), a first exhaust gas turbocharger ( 16 ) including a first turbine ( 22 ) arranged in the exhaust tract ( 20 ) and at least one second exhaust gas turbocharger ( 18 ) including a second turbine ( 24 ) arranged in the exhaust tract ( 20 ), the first turbine ( 22 ) and the second turbine ( 24 ) being selectively drivable in alternation by at least a portion of the exhaust gas from the first cylinder bank ( 12 ) and from the second cylinder hank ( 13 ) via a single adjusting valve ( 26 ) which is arranged upstream of the first turbine ( 22 ) and the second turbine ( 24 ) and is switchable between at least three positions wherein the first turbine ( 22 ) has a first inlet duct ( 48 ) through which, in a first position of the adjusting valve ( 26 ), only exhaust gas from the first exhaust gas duct ( 44 ) of the first cylinder bank ( 12 ) may flow, and a second inlet duct ( 50 ) through which, in the first position of the adjusting valve ( 26 ), only exhaust gas from the second exhaust gas duct ( 46 ) of the second cylinder bank ( 13 ) may flow while no exhaust gas is supplied to the second turbine ( 24 ) and the internal combustion engine is operable in a pulse supercharging mode, and in the second position of the adjusting valve ( 26 ) the first exhaust gas duct ( 44 ) and the second exhaust gas duct ( 46 ) are fluidically combinable and no exhaust gas is supplied to the second turbine ( 24 ) and the internal combustion engine is operable in a ram supercharging mode, and, in the third position of the adjusting valve ( 26 ), the first exhaust gas duct ( 44 ), the second exhaust gas duct ( 46 ) and a third exhaust gas duct ( 68 ) are fluidically combined so that exhaust gas is also supplied to the second turbine ( 24 ) and the internal combustion engine is operated in a sequential supercharging mode. | 23,760 |
8,749,085 | 1. A gas turbine control device to be used in a generating facility including a gas turbine and a generator for generating power when at least rotational power of the gas turbine is transmitted, the gas turbine control device comprising: a first control section for obtaining a first fuel control command for causing generator output to follow a generator output set value decided based on a demand load, wherein the first control section includes a feedback control section, and wherein the feedback control section includes | 37,911 |
9,113,567 | 1. A dynamic mounting system for attaching one object to another, comprising: a heat sink and a second object; a rotatable screw, having a head at a top end and a shank having an unthreaded portion extending downward from said head and a threaded portion at a bottom-most end of greater diameter than said unthreaded portion; an internally threaded nut rigidly affixed to said second object; a biasing compression member acting directly between said screw and the heat sink; said screw being received by said nut rotatably advanceable by threaded engagement therewith and advanceable to a pre-determined maximum depth, where the screw threads extend beyond and disengage from the nut threads; and wherein the elements are selected such that a pre-determined clamp load is applied to components located between the heat sink and the second object. | 13,767 |
8,593,732 | 1. A diffraction grating comprising: a substrate comprising a first dielectric or semiconductor material substantially transparent over a range of operational wavelengths λ with a refractive index n a set of diffractive elements formed on the first surface of the substrate, wherein the diffractive elements comprise a set of protruding ridges separated by intervening trenches characterized by a ridge spacing Λ, a ridge width d, and a ridge height h; and a metal layer on a to surface of each ridge characterized by a thickness t, wherein: at least a portion of a bottom surface of each trench is substantially free of metal; λ/2n n | 33,246 |
9,006,252 | 1. A compound of formula (I): wherein X is in which each of Q, T, U, and V is, independently, CR 3 , R 3 being H, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, heterocycloalkyl, heterocycloalkenyl, halo, cyano, OR a , OC(O)R a , C(O)R a , C(O)OR a , C(O)NR a R b , NR a R b , NHC(O)R a , NHC(O)NR a R b , NHC(S)R a , NHC(O)OR a , SO 3 R a , or SO 2 NR a R b , in which each of R a and R b , independently, is H, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, heterocycloalkyl, or heterocycloalkenyl; W 1 is N; each of Y and Z, independently, is O, S, or NR each of R′ and R″, independently, is H, halo, nitro, cyano, amino, hydroxy, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl, or heteroaryl; A is arylene or heteroarylene; B is O, S, or NR C is O, S, or NR D is alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, monocyclic heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, heterocycloalkyl, or heterocycloalkenyl; or C and D together are heterocycloalkyl, heterocycloalkenyl, aryl, or heteroaryl; or C, D, and Z together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded are bicyclic or tricyclic heteroaryl; and n is 2, 3, or 4. | 44,575 |
9,594,427 | 1. A smart ring device, comprising: a finger band configured to accommodate a user's finger; at least one pressure sensor secured to the finger band in a manner that can detect pressure imparted by a tendon passing through the finger band during performance of actions by the user's finger; and, a gesture component configured to: | 48,961 |
8,627,421 | 1. A method for controlling access to a protected resource, the method comprising the steps of: presenting a user with a plurality of primed stimuli during a priming phase; presenting said user with a plurality of degraded versions of a subset of said primed stimuli and with a plurality of degraded versions of non-primed stimuli during an authentication phase; receiving an identification from said user of said degraded versions of said primed stimuli and said degraded versions of said non-primed stimuli; and authenticating said user based upon a number of correct identifications of said degraded versions of said primed stimuli. | 31,514 |
9,108,524 | 1. A method of determining a state-of-charge of a battery for a vehicle, the vehicle being in a charging state when the engine is operating and a non-charging state when the engine is not operating, the method comprising the steps of: (a) measuring an open circuit voltage (OCV) for a current vehicle ignition startup using a voltmeter, wherein the current vehicle ignition start-up is performed after the vehicle is in the non-charging state for at least eight hours; (b) determining an open circuit voltage-based state of charge (SOC (c) determining an estimated open circuit-based state of charge (SOC (d) determining whether the difference in the SOC (e) performing steps (a)-(d) in response to the difference being greater than the predefined error; otherwise, proceeding to step (f); (f) determining an ignition-off current for the current vehicle ignition startup as a function of the SOC (g) determining an estimated state of charge (SOC (h) providing the SOC | 46,004 |
9,644,871 | 1. System comprising: an exchanger with a spiral plate coiled around a principal axis of the exchanger, so as to delimit a first fluid flow channel having a cross section in the form of a spiral discharging at a first axial extremity of the exchanger at an inlet zone of which the overall size is contained within a first crown, and a distribution device configured in order to supply the whole of the surface of the first crown in a homogeneous manner with at least a first fluid, wherein the distribution device comprises a spray nozzle for the first fluid configured so as to form, at an outlet of the spray nozzle, a jet of the first fluid of conical shape, being hollow at the centre of the cone, oriented in the principal axis of the exchanger, and so that the jet exhibits, at the inlet zone of the first fluid flow channel, a shape of a second crown having dimensions equal to the dimensions of the first crown of the inlet zone. | 21,322 |
9,469,163 | 1. A pneumatic tire comprising an inner liner disposed inwardly in the tire relative to a carcass ply bridged between a pair of bead portions, said inner liner being formed of a first layer disposed inwardly in the tire and a second layer disposed to be in contact with a rubber layer of said carcass ply, said first layer being a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing a thermoplastic elastomer component containing a styrene-isobutylene-styrene block copolymer and an SIBS modified copolymer having a styrene block moiety modified with acid chloride or acid anhydride having an unsaturated bond, the thermoplastic elastomer composition also containing at least one of an ultraviolet absorber and an antioxidant, and said second layer being a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing at least one of a styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer and a styrene-isobutylene block copolymer, wherein the styrene-isobutylene-styrene block copolymer is in an amount of more than 0 mass % of the thermoplastic elastomer component, and the SIBS modified copolymer is in an amount of 10 mass % or more of the thermoplastic elastomer component, and wherein the SIBS modified copolymer contains acid chloride or acid anhydride having an unsaturated bond at a content of more than or equal to 1 wt % and less than or equal to 30 wt %. | 7,390 |
9,348,381 | 1. A method for controlling a charging of an electric vehicle using an electric vehicle charging station, a mobile device, and a cloud server, wherein the electric vehicle charging station is configured to receive and manage reservations for the charging slots at the electric vehicle charging station, the method comprising: transmitting, from the electric vehicle charging station, a charge transfer request for an electric vehicle directly to the mobile device, wherein the electric vehicle charging station does not transmit a charge transfer request for an electric vehicle to the cloud server without relaying through the mobile device; receiving, at the mobile device, the charge transfer request for the electric vehicle of a first user over a network link directly from the electric vehicle charging station, wherein the first user of the mobile device is associated with the electric vehicle to be charged; sending, from the mobile device, the charge transfer request for the electric vehicle directly to the cloud server, wherein the charge transfer request relayed from the mobile device includes identification information and funding credit account information; authorizing the charge transfer request received at the cloud server using the identification information and credit account information received from the mobile device; sending, from the cloud server, a response enabling the charge transfer from the electric vehicle charging station to the electric vehicle; charging the electric vehicle of the first user in a first charging slot at the electric vehicle charging station for a first charging session, the charging session having a scheduled end time; reserving a second charging session for an electric vehicle of a second user, the second charging session being scheduled to begin after the scheduled end time of the first charging session; enabling communication between the first user and the second user via the cloud server, and facilitating a request from the first user to the second user to extend the scheduled end time of the first charging session an amount of time of the first user into the second charging session of the second user; and facilitating a response from the second user, and if the second user agrees to a modified second charging session, reimbursing the second user, from the first user, for any inconvenience, reduced charging time, or both. | 13,095 |
9,036,471 | 1. A method of managing communication of data by a wireless networking device, the method being operable on a computerized device with a processor and memory, the method comprising the steps of: (a) analyzing a state of the wireless networking device to determine whether the data is communicable over a wireless network in compliance with a performance threshold; (b) analyzing a zone in which the wireless networking device that is not in compliance with the performance threshold is located to detect a condition that relates to the communication of the data in the zone, wherein the data is communicable by the wireless networking device and a peripheral wireless networking device in the zone; (c) measuring a degree of the condition that affects the communication by the wireless networking device that is not in compliance with the performance threshold from being in compliance with the performance threshold; (d) determining a solution to affect the degree of the condition; and (e) controlling the wireless networking device to apply the solution. | 42,697 |
8,734,746 | 1. A method for the catalytic decomposition of N 2 O in an N 2 O- and NO x -containing gas, comprising bringing the N 2 O- and NO x -containing gas into contact with a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises a zeolite that has been loaded with metals consisting of a noble metal selected from the group consisting of ruthenium and platinum, and a transition metal consisting of iron, the zeolite is ferrierite (FER) or zeolite beta (BEA), and the loading of the zeolite with the noble metal and the transition metal has been performed simultaneously. | 10,382 |
8,795,885 | 1. A lithium-ion battery comprising in combination: an anode comprising electrodeposited high aspect-ratio nanostructures, wherein the nanostructures are nanowires, nanotubes or nanocones, and having intermetallic composition effective for reversibly intercalating lithium ions, the nanostructures being in electrical communication with a first electrode; a lithium-ion conducting, electrically-insulating, solid-state electrolyte deposited on the nanostructures forming solid-state electrolyte covered anode nanostructures; and a cathode material deposited on said solid-state electrolyte, thereby interpenetrating spaces between said solid-state electrolyte covered anode nanostructures, and in electrical communication with a second electrode, such that the nanostructures and said cathode material are disposed between said first electrode and said second electrode. | 44,828 |
8,906,330 | 1. A catalyst composition comprising: a carrier substrate; wherein the layer (iii) has a lower weight than the layer (i) or the layer (ii). | 14,853 |
9,312,788 | 1. A control device of a power conversion unit applied to a three-phase AC grid comprising: a detection unit configured for detecting a three-phase voltage signal of the three-phase AC grid and calculating and generating a negative sequence reactive current given signal; a current detection unit configured for detecting a current of the power conversion unit to output a feedback current signal; and a signal processing unit configured for receiving the negative sequence reactive current given signal, a positive sequence current given signal, and the feedback current signal to output a modulation signal; wherein the power conversion unit is electrically coupled to the signal processing unit and the three-phase AC grid, the power conversion unit absorbs negative sequence reactive currents from the three-phase AC grid according to the modulation signal when the three-phase voltage signal is unbalanced so as to reduce a negative sequence voltage at an output terminal of the power conversion unit. | 17,718 |
8,853,994 | 1. An analog photovoltaic power circuit, comprising: a photovoltaic device group for receiving photo energy and generating an input voltage, the input voltage corresponding to an input current; a power stage for receiving the input voltage and generating an output voltage; an optimum current point estimation circuit estimating an optimum current point corresponding to an optimal power output point according to a direction of variation of the input current and a direction of variation of power generated by the photovoltaic device group; and an analog comparison and control circuit for controlling an operation of the power stage according to a comparison between the optimum current point estimated by the optimum current point estimation circuit and the input current. | 7,160 |
8,592,095 | 1. A high molecular nanocomposite membrane for a direct methanol fuel cell, comprising a perflurorosulfonic acid polymer high molecular membrane in which hydrophobic silica nanoparticles made from a silane compound having a water repellent functional group are dispersed. | 7,220 |
9,683,048 | 1. A method of stimulating an immune response in a subject, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an antibody molecule capable of binding to human Programmed Death-1 (PD-1) in an amount effective to stimulate the immune response, wherein the antibody molecule comprises a heavy chain variable region (VH) comprising a VHCDR1 amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4, a VHCDR2 amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5, and a VHCDR3 amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3; and a light chain variable region (VL) comprising a VLCDR1 amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 13, a VLCDR2 amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14, and a VLCDR3 amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 33. | 39,836 |
8,812,690 | 1. A method comprising: accessing a member profile from member profiles in an on-line social networking system, the member profile representing a first member of the on-line social networking system, the member profile comprising a plurality of profile units; selecting a seed profile from the member profiles, the seed profile representing a second member of an on-line social network, a reputation score of the seed profile is associated with a confidence value that is above a predetermined threshold, the reputation score of the seed profile indicative of a reputation of the second member of the on-line social networking system; determining association information, the association information reflecting association between the member profile and the seed profile; for one or more profile units from the member profile, generating respective unit scores; and based on the respective unit scores for the one or more profile units and the association information, generating, using at least one processor, a combined reputation score, the combined reputation score being indicative of a reputation of the first member of the on-line social networking system. | 23,338 |
9,327,594 | 1. An access system for a vehicle energy storage device comprising: a housing; an access port in the housing; wherein the access port is configured for operative communication with the energy storage device; an access door operatively connected to the housing; wherein the access door is configured to be movable between a closed position in which the access door closes the housing, and an open position in which the access door opens the housing; the access door thereby preventing access to the access port in the closed position and permitting access to the access port in the open position; a magnet operatively connected to one of the housing and the access door; a magnetic sensor operable to detect proximity of the magnet relative to the magnetic sensor; wherein the magnetic sensor is operatively connected to the other one of the housing and the access door; wherein the magnetic sensor is operable to provide a signal indicative of whether the access door is in the closed position; wherein the energy storage device is a first energy storage device, and the vehicle has a second energy storage device; wherein the housing is a first housing, the access port is a first access port, and the access door is a first access door; and further comprising: a second housing; a second access port in the second housing; wherein the second access port is configured for operative communication with the second energy storage device; a second access door operatively connected to the second housing; wherein the second access door is configured to be movable between a closed position in which the second access door closes the second housing, and an open position in which the second access door opens the second housing, the second access door thereby preventing access to the second access port in the closed position and permitting access to the second access port in the open position; a latch assembly operable to latch the second access door to the second housing to keep the second access door in the closed position, and releasable to permit movement of the second access door to the open position; wherein the latch assembly includes a striker feature on the second access door and a latch secured to the second housing; wherein the latch assembly is operatively connected to the magnetic sensor that is operatively connected to the other one of the first housing and the first access door; and wherein the latch assembly is configured to release only if the signal indicates that the first access door is in the closed position. | 49,914 |
8,449,725 | 1. An apparatus for recovering styrene monomer, comprising: a supply means for supplying waste polystyrene; a tubular type pyrolysis reactor for receiving waste polystyrene from the supply means and pyrolyzing the same, the reactor comprising a residue discharge means for discharging residue resulting from the pyrolysis; an auxiliary solvent supplier for supplying an auxiliary solvent to the pyrolysis reactor, wherein the auxiliary solvent comprises steam; and a cooler, connected to the reactor via a connecting means, for cooling gas produced from the pyrolysis, and condensing the gas into styrene monomer oil. | 45,272 |
8,407,411 | 1. An operation frequency adjusting system comprising: a statistic module counting effective operations of a Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM); a parameter configuration module generating a target operation frequency according to a count of the effective operations of the DRAM; and a frequency switch controller switching from a present operation frequency of the DRAM to the target operation frequency. | 24,256 |
8,696,190 | 1. A method for preparing and inertial placing with compacting a concrete mix in a vibration-free placement of concrete, which method comprising stages of: concreting under super-high pressure using a speed force inertial characteristic of components which stage being carried out by steps of: cyclical forced preparing the mix in a mixing chamber, transporting the mix via a pipe-line, discharging in a stream for placing with compacting by means of sputtering the stream by a plume of inertial displacing the concrete mix in space taking into account a plume position and shape, wherein the steps in the stage of concreting under super-high pressure using a speed force inertial characteristic of components are joined into the continuous serial process of the steps of: preparing the mix, unloading and transporting thereof, reconstructing the stream, discharging the mix stream for placing with compacting thereof, the step of enforced cyclic preparing the mix in the mixing chamber being performed by means of stirring along with a combined movement of the components in the mixing chamber with a possibility for preparation the mix for uniform unloading, the step of unloading the mix from the chamber being performed by means of ejecting which is combined with a change of a combined stirring mode, the step of transporting the mix via the pipe-line being carried out in form of an air pulp having an average density of 5 to 50 kg/m prior to discharging the mix stream for placing and compacting thereof, being performed by means of shaping a complex form of the stream with restraining the stream on the surface thereof with by second-order plane at a discharging velocity of 200 to 500 m/sec, the step of discharging being carried out using speed force inertial characteristics of the components of the reconstructed stream for placing with compacting by means of sputtering the stream with the plume of an inertial displacement of the concrete mix in the space taking into account the plume position and shape, with a possibility for adjusting and optimizing the compaction factor of the concrete mix with respect to complex indices of mix parameters, and/or plume modes, and/or space medium characteristics. | 14,876 |
9,142,706 | 1. A method of manufacturing a solar cell, comprising: preparing a semiconductor substrate having first and second principle surfaces, forming a first amorphous semiconductor layer having a first conductivity on a portion of the first principle surface, forming an insulating layer of silicon nitride, silicon oxide or silicon oxynitride covering the first amorphous semiconductor layer; then forming a second amorphous semiconductor layer having a second conductivity to cover the first principle surface including a surface of the insulating layer; partially removing a portion of the second semiconductor layer located on the insulating layer by etching using a first etchant whose etching rate is higher for the second semiconductor layer than for the insulating layer; exposing the first amorphous semiconductor layer by removing a portion of the insulating layer by etching using the second semiconductor layer partially removed by the etching as a mask and using a second etchant whose etching rate is higher for the insulating layer than for the second semiconductor layer; and after exposing the first amorphous semiconductor layer, then forming an electrode on each of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. | 38,791 |
9,017,845 | 1. An electric energy storage device for a motor vehicle, comprising: a housing having a supporting element with an annular supporting frame, the annular supporting frame having an open top and an open bottom, the supporting element further having fastening sections projecting out from the annular supporting frame and configured for detachably connecting the electric energy storage device to a body structure of a motor vehicle, at least one storage module support projecting in from the annular supporting frame, the housing further having a non-load-bearing housing top part and a non-load-bearing housing bottom part detachably connected respectively to the open top and the open bottom of the supporting frame; and storage modules mounted to the storage module support at positions spaced inward of the annular supporting frame of the housing. | 21,744 |
8,766,605 | 1. A bridgeless PFC (power factor correction) converter, comprising: a first input terminal and a second input terminal configured to receive an input AC signal; an output terminal configured to provide an output signal; an inductor set comprising N inductors, wherein each inductor has a first terminal and a second terminal, and the first terminal of each inductor is coupled to the first input terminal; an output stage comprising (N+1) switching circuits coupled between the output terminal and a ground node, wherein a first switching circuit comprises a first switch and a second switch, and wherein the first switch and the second switch are coupled in series, and the conjunction of the switches in the first switching circuit is coupled to the second input terminal, and wherein each of the remaining switching circuits respectively comprises a bottom switch and a top switch, and wherein each conjunction of the switches in the remaining switching circuits is respectively coupled to the second terminal of the respective N inductors; and an output capacitor coupled between the output terminal and the ground node; wherein: N is a natural number, and wherein N≧1; the bottom switches in each switching circuit are turned ON and OFF simultaneously, the top switches in each switching circuit are turned ON and OFF simultaneously, and the bottom switches and the top switches are turned ON and OFF alternatively; during when the input AC signal is positive: the first switch is turned ON, and the second switch is turned OFF, (1) when the current of the inductors cross zero, the top switches are turned OFF and the bottom switches are turned ON, the current flowing through the inductors positively increases; (2) when the current of the inductors reach a peak limit, the top switches are turned OFF and the bottom switches are turned ON, the current of the inductors positively decrease; (3) when the current of the inductors cross zero, the above operation repeats; during when the input AC signal is negative: the first switch is turned OFF, and the second switch is turned ON, (1) when the current of the inductors cross zero, the bottom switches are turned OFF and the top switches are turned ON, the current flowing through the inductors negatively increases; (2) when the current of the inductors reach the peak limit, the top switches are turned OFF and the bottom switches are turned ON, the current of the inductors negatively decrease; (3) when the current of the inductors cross zero, the above operation repeats; and wherein the peak limit has a sinusoidal waveform. | 1,868 |
9,318,996 | 1. A solar energy collection apparatus comprising of: said solar energy collection apparatus comprises an absorber plate, said absorber plate comprises porous metal, in which said porous metal comprises substantially inter-connected strands of metal, and wherein said absorber plate comprises at least one metal that can conduct electricity and comprises at least one material that can provide electrical energy from the photovoltaic effect, and wherein said electrical energy can conduct throughout the substantially inter-connected strands of metal, said porous metal further comprises a substantially open lattice work of air pores between said substantially inter-connected strands of metal, wherein said inter-connected strands of metal being configured to form a substantially singular object with said open lattice work of air pores, in which said porous metal further comprises a porosity of approximately 85% to 98%, and said open lattice work of air pores comprises a pore size of approximately 0.1 mm to 10 mm, said porous metal further comprises a volume density of approximately 0.1 to 1 grams per cubic centimeter (cc), wherein said porosity, pore size, and density of said porous metal being configured to enable a working fluid to substantially traverse throughout said open lattice work of air pores between said inter-connected strands of metal of said absorber plate, and said porous metal absorber plate further comprises a depth of approximately 1 mm to 100 mm, and wherein said depth of said porous metal being configured to trap light rays that penetrates said porous metal absorber plate and generally refracting and reflecting said light rays within said open lattice work of air pores between said inter-connected strands of metal, and said porous metal absorber plate being configured to enable a working fluid to substantially traverse throughout said open lattice work of air pores between said inter-connected strands of metal of said absorber plate as to enable substantial solar energy harvest from said solar energy collection apparatus without the use of a radiation trap structure in-between said porous metal absorber plate and any type of cover glazing of said solar energy collection apparatus. | 42,303 |
8,375,758 | 1. A laminated tooling apparatus, comprising: a first tooling die; a first susceptor carried by the first tooling die and having at least one straight susceptor portion and at least one angled susceptor portion adjacent to the straight susceptor portion; a first plurality of susceptor slots extending partially through the at least one angled susceptor portion of the first tooling die; a second tooling die adjacent to the first tooling die; a second susceptor carried by the second tooling die and having at least one straight susceptor portion and at least one angled susceptor portion adjacent to the straight susceptor portion; and a second plurality of susceptor slots extending partially through the at least one angled susceptor portion of the second tooling die. | 19,867 |
9,246,163 | 1. A metal oxygen battery, comprising: a positive electrode to which oxygen is applied as an active material; a negative electrode to which metallic lithium is applied as an active material; and an electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode contains oxygen storage material including | 47,390 |
8,841,779 | 1. A method of making a semiconductor device, comprising: providing a semiconductor die including a contact pad; providing a substrate; forming a conductive trace over the substrate including an interconnect site; and forming an interconnect structure between the contact pad and the interconnect site, wherein a width of the interconnect site is greater than 20% and less than 80% of a width of a contact interface between the interconnect structure and the contact pad. | 41,247 |
9,055,393 | 1. A device comprising: a near field communication (NFC) module comprising a controller to: store data and a list of devices authorized to receive the data; receive a request for the data from a second device when the device is operating in a first mode; transfer the data from the NFC module to the second device using NFC communications protocol based on a determination that the second device is an authorized device; continue transfer of the data from a wireless radio of the device to the second device using wireless radio communications protocol, in response to the first device operating in a second mode; and continue transfer the data to the second device using the NFC communications protocol, in response to the device switching back to the first mode, wherein the data is transferred from the NFC module to the second device, and wherein the first mode includes at least one of a low power mode, a power off mode, and a sleep mode, and wherein the second mode includes an operational mode. | 30,063 |
9,312,334 | 1. A semiconductor component comprising: a semiconductor body having a cell region and an edge region, which semiconductor body, at least in the cell region, contains a drift zone of a first conduction type in a front side of the semiconductor body and is provided with at least one zone of the first conduction type and at least one zone of a second conduction type in a rear side; and wherein a laterally delimited further zone of the second conduction type is arranged directly in front of the at least one zone of the first conduction type. | 19,390 |
8,634,880 | 1. A system, comprising: a host interface module configured to receive configuration information from a host processor of a wireless device, a power management module configured to generate a first signal in response to the wireless device receiving data of the predetermined category from the wireless network, | 27,453 |
9,761,079 | 1. A hand sanitizer dispenser comprising a housing configured to dispense only hand sanitizer product, the housing further comprising a first compartment within the housing to store single-use hand sanitizer product; a second compartment within the housing to store packaged hand sanitizer product; a first dispensing outlet coupled to the first compartment to dispense single-use hand sanitizer product; and a second dispensing outlet coupled to the second compartment to dispense packaged hand sanitizer product. | 7,104 |
8,522,536 | 1. An exhaust emissions aftertreatment system for use with a lean-burn spark-ignited engine-equipped vehicle having at least an engine with an exhaust manifold, an engine compartment, a floor, and a tailpipe, the engine having exhaust temperatures less than 650 degrees Centigrade, comprising: a wall-flow three way catalyst aftertreatment device, located in the engine compartment and closely-coupled with the exhaust manifold, the wall-flow three way catalyst aftertreatment device including a substrate having an entry face and an exit face and a plurality of longitudinal and parallel walls between the entry face and the exit face, the walls defining inlet channels and outlet channels, the substrate being made from a particulate matter filter material; the inlet channels being plugged at the exit face and the outlet channels being plugged at the entry face; wherein the channels are coated with a three way catalyst formulation; wherein the wall-flow three way catalyst is operational to passively regenerate during normal engine operating conditions of the lean burn spark-ignited engine; wherein the wall-flow three way catalyst is further operational to reduce hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and NOx from exhaust produced by spark-ignited lean burn engine operation when light-off temperature of the catalyst is reached and exhaust temperatures are below 650 degrees Centigrade; and a flow-through NOx reduction device, located under the floor of the vehicle, the flow-through NOx reduction device including an entry face and an exit face and a plurality of longitudinal and parallel walls between the entry face and the exit face, the walls defining inlet channels and outlet channels, the inlet channels being open at the exit face and the outlet channels being open at the entry face and wherein the channels are coated with an NOx reduction catalyst formulation. | 44,106 |
8,350,059 | 1. A method for making a compound of formula (V): wherein R R R R R comprising reacting a compound of formula (I): wherein R with a compound of formula (II): wherein X is a halogen; under suitable basic conditions, comprising (i) converting the primary alcohol (I) into the corresponding aldehyde, (ii) converting the phosphonium ion (II) into the corresponding ylide, and (iii) reacting the aldehyde and the ylide, such that a compound of formula (V) is formed. | 5,377 |
9,550,586 | 1. A thermally reactive nosecone mounted on a projectile for achieving hypersonic transport comprising: a high pressure supersonic isentropic expansion nozzle where liquid helium is directly distilled out of compressed helium resulting in an incipient shockwave being transformed into an isentropic flux via a stochastic switch. | 18,206 |
9,798,530 | 1. A method for updating firmware on an accessory to a short range wireless device, where the accessory is associated with a user, the method comprising: establishing a short range wireless connection between the short range wireless device and the accessory; providing read access by the short range wireless device to accessory information stored on the accessory; authenticating the user to the accessory using accessory information together with accessory credentials, where the accessory credentials are retrieved by the short range wireless device, via a network, from user information stored on a server; and if the user is authenticated to the accessory: where the accessory credentials comprise an identifier of the accessory and an authentication key, where the firmware update data includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error-detecting code, and where the verifying comprises checking the CRC. | 45,912 |
9,853,970 | 1. A method of wireless communication to be performed at a docking device, the method comprising: establishing, by the docking device, a secure wireless link with a mobile device, wherein establishing the secure wireless link does not include activating at the docking device I/O services to be provided by the docking device to the mobile device; receiving by the docking device, over the secure wireless link, a request from the mobile device to send identification data; requesting and receiving, by the docking device, the identification data from a user; sending, over the secure wireless link, the identification data from the docking device to the mobile device; and after the identification data has been verified, activating at the docking device the I/O services with the mobile device. | 22,106 |
9,093,582 | 1. A solar canopy comprising a foldable solar cell structure, the canopy comprising: a plurality of hingably interconnected solar panel arrays each having a plurality of solar panels; a solar panel support channel, wherein the solar panel support channel is characterized by a first longitudinal axis; a support beam; a brace characterized by a second longitudinal axis, wherein the brace abuts the solar panel support channel such that the first longitudinal axis of the solar panel support channel is perpendicular to the second longitudinal axis of the brace, and wherein the brace is displaced away from the support beam; and a support column having a top portion connected to a longitudinal center portion of the solar canopy at the support beam, for attaching at a bottom portion to a ground foundation and supporting the unfolded solar canopy; wherein and whereby the solar canopy, when unfolded, is T-shaped viewed on end. | 36,370 |
9,330,395 | 1. A method for determining attention areas of a web page, the method comprising: providing an event observer module to the content of a webpage such that when the webpage is viewed in a browser at a client, the event observer module is able to record user events as the user browses the webpage; providing a layout module to the content of the webpage such that the layout module is able to record a layout of the webpage within a web browser; recording event data for a webpage interaction between a user and the webpage in a browser at a client comprising: processing, at the event server, the event data for the webpage interaction to create an attention data set for that webpage interaction that identifies one or more document object model elements that received at least one event during the webpage interaction; receiving a plurality of the event streams at the event server for a plurality of webpage interactions for a plurality of users; processing, at the event server, the plurality of event streams to create a plurality of the attention data sets; and processing the plurality of the attention data sets to determine aggregate attention data for the web page, wherein the aggregate attention data comprises at least one ranked list of document object model elements for the web page. | 20,530 |
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